Like any boy, my son like all things vehicular. Trains, cars, airplanes, trolleys, bicycles, hell--he'd prolly like rollerskates if he saw some.
And like many boys with Autism, he's got a few "stims" (a repetitive movement hypothesized to stimulate one or more senses). One stim he's had since I can remember is peripheral gazing. Basically--he brings things up to the corner of his eye and watches them go by right in his periphery. Usually, those things are vehicular.
And lately, he's added sound effects.
Because, like other kids on the Autism Spectrum, he loves him some you-tube videos of trains. And most of those videos have sound. And that sound, besides the "clack clack" (which he also scripts) sounds like the title of this blog. ZZZEEEEYYOOOOWWWMMMM!
So, whether he is playing with his train tracks in his room, a car out in here in the livingroom, a straw that has suddenly become a rocket at a restaurant, or his favorite 99 cent store train in the car, his gazing now has a soundtrack. Sometimes, a very LOUD soundtrack.
Better, I guess, than scripting the sound of ice clinking in mommy's glass...
